@Drunken Conquistador Yup, pretty much everyone who's known is invited, even the Dathu of all people will be attending. Of course, this won't stop their current invasion :P
Does that includes the cultural fair someone mentioned? I'm sure the rest of the Galaxy would love Enlightened culture
Alright, I've started working on my first post. Nothing too important for Galactic affairs, just to introduce a couple chars and showcase some warcrimes against a random one planet minor.
Hmm...would the State be invited to this Conference? I mean, we think you all need to be taught the proper way of achieving Nirvana, but we aren't above realizing that taking on several other major powers would be too much for us to handle
The Marshal has always ruled. The Marshal rules. The Marshal will always rule.
Species: Terran and others.
Species Description:
Natives to the jungles of NS-0294, the Chiron are a species insectoid species of insectoid quadrupeds with two forearms. Discovered early during the initial stages of colonization of the region by the Empire, the Chiron were easily enslaved by the humans. Their fast breeding rates and naturally submissive culture making them good slave stock.
With the fall of the Empire and the rise of the Enlightened State, the Chiron population dropped sharply due to their widespread use as canon fodder and the destruction of their breeding factories. After The Marshal's inevitable triumph, most of the surviving Chiron were exterminated for they had served His enemies. The surviving Chiron were then resettled to the Sargar system, while their former homeworld was strip mined and turned into a penal colony.
Ever since then, the Chiron have been fully integrated into the Enlightened State. The role of the Emperor, and the all powerful tribal leaders before them, being taken over by The Marshal and the State. Half of the planets of Sargar are covered with massive breeding factories where Chiron females spent their entire lives doing nothing but birthing hundreds after hundreds of larvae, most of which are processed into nutrient paste and fed to the wider Chiron population, so as to keep their numbers under control. The other half of the system has been turned into an industrial wasteland where male Chiron work their entire lives without seeing sunlight. Those who escape the life of a factory slave or breeding mare have the fate of cannon fodder to look forward to. Fighting alongside prisoners, local civilians and other undesirables in the Counter-Munition Units.
Hailing from the planet of HG-929, a world with 90% of its surface covered in water, the Wuzei are a species of sapient aquatic cephalopods who were almost entirely exterminated by the Empire's initial invasion. The survivors were enslaved and their homeworld turned into a popular resort for the Imperial aristocracy.
When the Empire collapsed, HG-929 (then known by another name) served as a logistics hub for the Yellow Army, one of the many post-Imperial warlords, before The Marshal's forces took over the planet. Destroying much of the biosphere in the process. The surviving Wuzei were enslaved by The Marshal, who turned their planet from a high class resort into one giant fishery.
The "Master Race" of the Universe, at least according to the State, Terrans within the State come in a variety of shape, colors and sizes. After all, Terran superiority can come in a variety of forms. Within the State itself, Terrans count with at least some sort of modification. From the basic genetic engineering received during gestation to the extensive list of biological and cyberentic improvements common to the Shock Divisions.
It is the State's official policy to dole out these modifications to the masses based on how they will help improve the efficiency of their work. In essence this means that over the years the State has developed a variety of different machines, implants, devices, drugs and procedures that modify different aspects of the human body and mind.
I'm thinking about adding more species, just not thinking of anything in particular at the moment.
Foreign Policy: To itself first and foremost. The Marshal's work cannot be stopped and His enlightened message must be spread to all living things.
Rhetoric aside, the State is not above making alliances of convenience with anyone. Currently maintaining cordial relations with the other Terran nations.
The Marshal rules the State and his Enlightened Wisdom will guide us to Nirvana.
On a more serious note, the State can be classified as a Totalitarian Oligarchy. Without a single leader to enforce his or her will through the government apparatus, actual control has been taken over by a council of the Ministers of the State. Who in theory all work together with equal powers, in reality however the the council is controlled by the Ministers of Peace and Enlightenment, who control the two most powerful ministries. Though neither of them has come even close of wielding the kind of supreme power The Marshal once had.
The government is divided into several ministries. Each one responsible for one aspect of the State. For example, the Ministry of Peace is in charge of military affairs, the Ministry of Enlightenment is in charge of protecting the spiritual health of the State, usually by reeducating dissidents, exterminating terrorists and monitoring the masses.(aka: KGB+Inquisition+SS). The Ministry of Production deals with general economic affairs. The Ministry of Life takes care of the communal creches and population growth. And so forth.
The basis of the State's Enlightened Philosophy came to be during the chaotic days of the Imperial collapse. Mixing the already existing and popular notions of Terran supremacy with a then obscure minor religion found in the fringe worlds of the Empire.
In essence, this philosophy has several basic pillars:
-All living things have a soul, and these souls are actually just shards of a larger soul belonging to an incomprehensibly alien entity that exists beyond the currents of time and space. As such, individuality is a lie because all living things are parts of the same whole.
-All living things are stuck in a cycle of death and rebirth until they are enlightened enough to achieve Oneness with the ultimate being.
-The Terran species is closer to this ultimate being on the evolutionary scale. As such it falls to them to lead the rest of the Galaxy through the path of Enlightenment and escape the cycle of suffering that is life.
-The ultimate goal of all life is to achieve Enlightenment. That is, escape the cycle. As such, everyone must submit completely to the State so that they might reach True Enlightenment faster.
-Suffering before death and complete obedience are all good ways to speed up Enlightenment. On the same vein, those who inflict this upon others are to be respected for they are delaying their own eventual salvation.
The Enlightened Army
On the ground the Enlightened Army uses the vast numbers of mechanized, airborne and armored forces to engage the enemy line in several different points. Overwhelming their defenses with carefully planned attacks and diversionary actions supported by staggering amounts of firepower. Once the breakthrough is achieved in one or more sectors, the reserves are unleashed into the gap with the purpose of penetrating deep into enemy lines and destroy their ability to sustain the front, striking into their logistical support chain and depriving them of reinforcements, relief or supply. For the high command, tactical and local defeats are more than acceptable as long as victory is achieved in the strategic and operational levels.
The Enlightened Army also considers nuclear, radiological, bilogical and chemical weaponry a linchpin of its strategy. In general the State has a much higher tolerance for collateral damage during planetary battles.
Besides the mechanized divisions that make up the spine of the Enlightened Army, the State also fields sizable conscript formations drawn from reeducation camps and subject alien species. The so-called "Counter-Munition Units", armed with outdated equipment and sent to the front in disorganized mobs with the purpose of wasting the enemy's ammunition.
The Enlightened Navy
In space, the Enlightened Navy operates in battlegroups. Collections of ships centered around a core of heavy hitting large dreadnoughts supported by a variety of smaller ships. The Enlightened Fleet tends to favor missile in its smaller ships, launching innumerable warheads to overwhelm enemy defenses and open the way for the heavy weaponry of the capital ships. When supporting planetside operations, the Navy also makes extensive use of weapons of mass destruction to provide ground support for the Army.
Work in Progress.
Basic sum up:
-Empire weakens and hold over the area slackens. -Warlords pop up everywhere. Pay lip service to the Empire -Empire crumbles -One particularly crazy bastard with a fucked up ideology gains prominence. -Takes over the area. -Creates totalitarian nightmare -Expands and industrializes -Expands some more, genocides some folks and brainwashes others. -Expands and then overextension causes problems. -Passive period to put the home front in order.
Life within the State is a regimented affair. Total submission is expected from every citizen and the State does not shies away from spying on your every move to ensure ones' loyalty. The Ministry of Enlightenment makes sure that everything and everyone is accounted for. While relentless propaganda permeates every aspect of a citizen's life.
Individuality is heavily discouraged by official propaganda for its is only an illusion that stands in the way of Enlightenment. Instead the collective should be praised, for its through the efforts of the group, in total subservience to the State, that one may reach Enlightenment.
Family is another "spiritual plague" that has been wiped out by the State. Familial ties only serve to weaken the loyalty of the citizen to the State. As such, families are enemies of the State and must be eliminated. In the Enlightened worlds, children are raised in large compounds run by the Ministry of Life. Conception usually happens in the facilities ran by the Ministry of Life where citizens have their material collected and combined. With the embryo is formed, it comes to term in artificial wombs.
Slightly more privileged are the members of the medium and upper echelons of the State's bureaucracy. In the sense that they have access to a few more recreation options and that they have a higher chance of being sent to actual reeducation instead of outright killed. Though this is of little comfort to the ones who end on the wrong side of the power struggles within the Enlightened Bureaucracy
Sorry for the disappearance guys. This Christmas season turned out to be busier than I expected. I'm still interested in playing, just kinda hit a writer's bloc at the moment on how should I take the Enlightened State
I started to write the Communazis but then this came out. Still work in progress but this is the basic skeleton.
Ruler/Rulers:
The Marshal has always ruled. The Marshal rules. The Marshal will always rule.
Species: Terran and others.
Species Description:
Natives to the jungles of NS-0294, the Chiron are a species insectoid species of insectoid quadrupeds with two forearms. Discovered early during the initial stages of colonization of the region by the Empire, the Chiron were easily enslaved by the humans. Their fast breeding rates and naturally submissive culture making them good slave stock.
With the fall of the Empire and the rise of the Enlightened State, the Chiron population dropped sharply due to their widespread use as canon fodder and the destruction of their breeding factories. After The Marshal's inevitable triumph, most of the surviving Chiron were exterminated for they had served His enemies. The surviving Chiron were then resettled to the Sargar system, while their former homeworld was strip mined and turned into a penal colony.
Ever since then, the Chiron have been fully integrated into the Enlightened State. The role of the Emperor, and the all powerful tribal leaders before them, being taken over by The Marshal and the State. Half of the planets of Sargar are covered with massive breeding factories where Chiron females spent their entire lives doing nothing but birthing hundreds after hundreds of larvae, most of which are processed into nutrient paste and fed to the wider Chiron population, so as to keep their numbers under control. The other half of the system has been turned into an industrial wasteland where male Chiron work their entire lives without seeing sunlight. Those who escape the life of a factory slave or breeding mare have the fate of cannon fodder to look forward to. Fighting alongside prisoners, local civilians and other undesirables in the Counter-Munition Units.
Hailing from the planet of HG-929, a world with 90% of its surface covered in water, the Wuzei are a species of sapient aquatic cephalopods who were almost entirely exterminated by the Empire's initial invasion. The survivors were enslaved and their homeworld turned into a popular resort for the Imperial aristocracy.
When the Empire collapsed, HG-929 (then known by another name) served as a logistics hub for the Yellow Army, one of the many post-Imperial warlords, before The Marshal's forces took over the planet. Destroying much of the biosphere in the process. The surviving Wuzei were enslaved by The Marshal, who turned their planet from a high class resort into one giant fishery.
The "Master Race" of the Universe, at least according to the State, Terrans within the State come in a variety of shape, colors and sizes. After all, Terran superiority can come in a variety of forms. Within the State itself, Terrans count with at least some sort of modification. From the basic genetic engineering received during gestation to the extensive list of biological and cyberentic improvements common to the Shock Divisions.
It is the State's official policy to dole out these modifications to the masses based on how they will help improve the efficiency of their work. In essence this means that over the years the State has developed a variety of different machines, implants, devices, drugs and procedures that modify different aspects of the human body and mind.
I'm thinking about adding more species, just not thinking of anything in particular at the moment.
Foreign Policy: To itself first and foremost. The Marshal's work cannot be stopped and His enlightened message must be spread to all living things.
Rhetoric aside, the State is not above making alliances of convenience with anyone. Currently maintaining cordial relations with the other Terran nations.
The Marshal rules the State and his Enlightened Wisdom will guide us to Nirvana.
On a more serious note, the State can be classified as a Totalitarian Oligarchy. Without a single leader to enforce his or her will through the government apparatus, actual control has been taken over by a council of the Ministers of the State. Who in theory all work together with equal powers, in reality however the the council is controlled by the Ministers of Peace and Enlightenment, who control the two most powerful ministries. Though neither of them has come even close of wielding the kind of supreme power The Marshal once had.
The government is divided into several ministries. Each one responsible for one aspect of the State. For example, the Ministry of Peace is in charge of military affairs, the Ministry of Enlightenment is in charge of protecting the spiritual health of the State, usually by reeducating dissidents, exterminating terrorists and monitoring the masses.(aka: KGB+Inquisition+SS). The Ministry of Production deals with general economic affairs. The Ministry of Life takes care of the communal creches and population growth. And so forth.
The basis of the State's Enlightened Philosophy came to be during the chaotic days of the Imperial collapse. Mixing the already existing and popular notions of Terran supremacy with a then obscure minor religion found in the fringe worlds of the Empire.
In essence, this philosophy has several basic pillars:
-All living things have a soul, and these souls are actually just shards of a larger soul belonging to an incomprehensibly alien entity that exists beyond the currents of time and space. As such, individuality is a lie because all living things are parts of the same whole.
-All living things are stuck in a cycle of death and rebirth until they are enlightened enough to achieve Oneness with the ultimate being.
-The Terran species is closer to this ultimate being on the evolutionary scale. As such it falls to them to lead the rest of the Galaxy through the path of Enlightenment and escape the cycle of suffering that is life.
-The ultimate goal of all life is to achieve Enlightenment. That is, escape the cycle. As such, everyone must submit completely to the State so that they might reach True Enlightenment faster.
-Suffering before death and complete obedience are all good ways to speed up Enlightenment. On the same vein, those who inflict this upon others are to be respected for they are delaying their own eventual salvation.
The Enlightened Army
On the ground the Enlightened Army uses the vast numbers of mechanized, airborne and armored forces to engage the enemy line in several different points. Overwhelming their defenses with carefully planned attacks and diversionary actions supported by staggering amounts of firepower. Once the breakthrough is achieved in one or more sectors, the reserves are unleashed into the gap with the purpose of penetrating deep into enemy lines and destroy their ability to sustain the front, striking into their logistical support chain and depriving them of reinforcements, relief or supply. For the high command, tactical and local defeats are more than acceptable as long as victory is achieved in the strategic and operational levels.
The Enlightened Army also considers nuclear, radiological, bilogical and chemical weaponry a linchpin of its strategy. In general the State has a much higher tolerance for collateral damage during planetary battles.
Besides the mechanized divisions that make up the spine of the Enlightened Army, the State also fields sizable conscript formations drawn from reeducation camps and subject alien species. The so-called "Counter-Munition Units", armed with outdated equipment and sent to the front in disorganized mobs with the purpose of wasting the enemy's ammunition.
The Enlightened Navy
In space, the Enlightened Navy operates in battlegroups. Collections of ships centered around a core of heavy hitting large dreadnoughts supported by a variety of smaller ships. The Enlightened Fleet tends to favor missile in its smaller ships, launching innumerable warheads to overwhelm enemy defenses and open the way for the heavy weaponry of the capital ships. When supporting planetside operations, the Navy also makes extensive use of weapons of mass destruction to provide ground support for the Army.
Work in Progress.
Basic sum up:
-Empire weakens and hold over the area slackens. -Warlords pop up everywhere. Pay lip service to the Empire -Empire crumbles -One particularly crazy bastard with a fucked up ideology gains prominence. -Takes over the area. -Creates totalitarian nightmare -Expands and industrializes -Expands some more, genocides some folks and brainwashes others. -Expands and then overextension causes problems. -Isolationist period to put the home front in order.
Life within the State is a regimented affair. Total submission is expected from every citizen and the State does not shies away from spying on your every move to ensure ones' loyalty. The Ministry of Enlightenment makes sure that everything and everyone is accounted for. While relentless propaganda permeates every aspect of a citizen's life.
Individuality is heavily discouraged by official propaganda for its is only an illusion that stands in the way of Enlightenment. Instead the collective should be praised, for its through the efforts of the group, in total subservience to the State, that one may reach Enlightenment.
Family is another "spiritual plague" that has been wiped out by the State. Familial ties only serve to weaken the loyalty of the citizen to the State. As such, families are enemies of the State and must be eliminated. In the Enlightened worlds, children are raised in large compounds run by the Ministry of Life. Conception usually happens in the facilities ran by the Ministry of Life where citizens have their material collected and combined. With the embryo is formed, it comes to term in artificial wombs.
Slightly more privileged are the members of the medium and upper echelons of the State's bureaucracy. In the sense that they have access to a few more recreation options and that they have a higher chance of being sent to actual reeducation instead of outright killed. Though this is of little comfort to the ones who end on the wrong side of the power struggles within the Enlightened Bureaucracy
That sounds like it would fit well, and the dynamic that it would have with my country (similar to what you described but instead of Master-Race it's Master Religion) would be quite interesting.
NRP, Star Wars, Dragon Age and Warhammer (Fantasy and 40k) enthusiast. Feel free to PM me about any related RPs
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